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Democratic Touch. The visiting churchmen had more important issues to face than Hargis-style hostility. In its two decades of existence, the World Council has grown into an organization of 232 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches with a total constituency of more than 300 million people. Yet its ecumenical mission of Christian unity is increasingly taking second place to more pressing problems: the demands for social and economic justice by underdeveloped countries; the rising ,clamor of young churchmen for a greater voice in ecclesiastical policymaking; the drift of many dissident believers into "underground" worship, imperiling the very foundations...
...superstition; who would have thought that a story that takes the devil seriously could become a smash? Yet Rosemary's Baby was not only a bestseller as a book, but already ranks among the top 50 alltime movie hits. The Graduate has become the third largest money earner ($40 million) in movie history...
...self-assessment. Their warning of January 22nd--that "the politicalization of art and all other forms of culture is a favorite device of dictatorship"--is ridiculously severe. Better they should deplore the pressures which led several New York City councilmen to threaten the end of the city's three-million-dollar allocation to the museum if the show's catalogue weren't withdrawn--as it now has been...
...satisfactory. Quite a number of courses recognize the existence of black men in the development of America; quite a bit of expertise is already available. However, merely recognizing black men as integral segments of certain overall social processes is not good enough. We are dealing with 25 million of our own people with a special history, culture, and range of problems. It can hardly be doubted that the study of black men in America is a legitimate and urgent academic endeavor...
...Ford Foundation, the Avalon Foundation, and the United States Public Health Services are providing most of the construction funds. A two million dollar grant from the Rockefeller Foundation will be used to support faculty and staff over a ten-year period...